Hisham Ikhtiyar

Hisham Ikhtiyar (1941-20 July 2012) was the Chairman of the National Bureau of the Regional Command of Syria from 2005 to 2012 and a Major-General of the Syrian Arab Army.

Biography
Hisham Ikhtiyar was born in Damascus in the French Mandate of Syria in 1941 to a Sunni Islamic family. From 2001 to 2005 he served as the leader of the General Security Directorate and quelled internal dissent within the Syrian Arab Republic of President Bashar al-Assad, and was also a security adviser to Al-Assad. On 18 July 2012 he was mortally wounded in a bomb assassination in Damascus during the Syrian Civil War alongside Assef Shawkat, Hasan Turkmani, and Dawoud Rajiha.